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• Blog / Financial Aid

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to ... handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably ... to take care of pretty much all of their expenditures, choosing to live

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is ... through Colón to see how excited everyone was. Here's a view from behind of ... direction. Obviously they are leaving the game, so I just need to walk in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  built a renewable energy device and an online platform for the monks to ... through an educational revolution.” Lou wants to be a part of it as much as ... to a remote Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. In a place without

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  . So I created a sort-of self-insert original character to project all my ... like something to someone I'm not familiar with feels like forcing a ... used to love in a self-deprecating way, like, "Oh man, my Undertale phase

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  SO HAPPY, but there wasn't much energy in me to get overly happy as ... got to go to Washington D.C. for a week and I met the most intelligent ... , I go on calls on a quest to save the world.  I'm technically only in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  ; instead of getting a band or two to perform, we hire a dozen bands to play ... the time to get out the DVD, here's a YouTube video of them wrestling at ... favorite two. Roast is also a time for halls and suites to do something art

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  community. Today I'd like to take a look at Dorm Room Fund, a venture fund ... a lot of grad student startups, as DRF isn't only limited to ... Gorbunov, co-founder at Aikicrypt, a new way to encrypt cloud data. PhD in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  the stars so I think astrophysics would be a lot of fun to study," said Boyd. Boyd says he's looking forward to studying at such a challenging ... technology problems when he does. Anytime the TV breaks or a computer problems

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  problem as its posed to us: A wheel of diameter R, consisting of a thin ... a lot like we can use energy. There's nothing but gravity doing work ... 're solving for!)). 2) Moment of Inertia. We need to find it. For the wheel

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  about as much work, but it would be harder to do in a culture where that ... . “Objectively you have a limit,” I thought to myself. "Somewhere north of four classes and south of sixteen. You don’t need to find it. You don’t have to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  them. I present to you: A BOBA MACHINE LOOK AT THIS MIRACLE THAT HAS ... and why they decided to create basically the best thing ever. The ... contracting work”), but they didn’t really believe in it enough to follow up on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  't have a lot of time or energy to focus on my happiness. So, coming to MIT ... UROP research ultimately won out. Still, I felt like I needed a break, a change of scenery, so I semi-spontaneously planned a trip to Europe with

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... everything from Chipotle to liquid nitrogen ice cream, but also made a binary ... , witnessed a giant CRT TV implode, gone to Six Flags of New England, won a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  need to remember that life is a lot more than that. (back to table of ... side and that each section has much food for thought, so feel free to ... really, really don’t need the answers yet. Maybe this post provides a way

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  ), and it felt weird to write on a blog about my MIT experience under a ... it was because I had a crush on this girl and running was ‘my time’ to feel all of my feelings until my body hurt too much to feel anything else

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  own, you don't need to seek a place that meets your needs better. It ... time.  The Old BC was in dire need of renewal. According to a 1977 Tech ... the Old Burton, students see a need to pull together to make the place

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  , or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your application ... because your application was already strong enough to make you a contender ... your particular situation. They're more than welcome to give our office a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  need to broaden our values a bit. Maybe a lot. The culture needs to be ... public outreach a gajillion notches - $11,906 worth of notches, to be ... 's difficult to say "hey! you should start a FIRST Robotics team!" when you also

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  my energy and excitement into a cohesive format, so I would pretty much ... campus and create a space for students to learn and partake in its culture ... I’ve taken on at MIT. It has given me a space to move, create, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  off sales figures faster than a cash register, needs $300,000 to go to ... purpose of a movie is to entertain. 21 does do a decent job at entertaining ... to day basis (or maybe, a subset of MIT still does, one that I don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008